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  • 13 Oct 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

Keywords: by Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend, and Yulia Zhestkova; Financial Services

    California Management Review article wins 2007 Accenture Award

    Greater job mobility among engineers and scientists has caused the extended social networks of inventors to become increasingly connected.  Firms that operate within small worlds such as in Silicon Valley long ago learned to manage invention in an... View Details

    • January 2020
    • Case

    SK Group: Social Progress Credits

    By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and David Freiberg
    SK Group was one of the largest companies South Korea. A family-run conglomerate consisting of around 120 subsidiaries and employing more than 100,000, SK was tightly knit into the fabric of Korean society. SK viewed their future success as contingent upon the strength... View Details
    Keywords: Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Social Value; Social Development; Conglomerates; Measurement Of Purpose; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Capital Markets; Innovation; Environmental Impact; Collaboration; Social Enterprise; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Measurement and Metrics; Value Creation; Cooperation; Environmental Sustainability; Employment; Accounting; Energy Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Chemical Industry; South Korea
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    • Article

    Turning Waste into By-Product

    By: Deishin Lee
    This paper studies how a firm can create and capture value by converting a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product (i.e., implementing by-product synergy [BPS]). We show that BPS creates an operational synergy between two products that are jointly produced.... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Innovation and Invention; Cost Management; Opportunities; Market Participation; Framework; Profit; Competition; Wastes and Waste Processing; Product; Business Processes
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    • 2001
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness

    By: Michael E. Porter
    Competitiveness has tended to be seen primarily from a federal perspective, and national policies and circumstances surely affect the prosperity of our economy. However, the Clusters of Innovation Initiative was undertaken with the realization that the real work of... View Details
    Keywords: Clusters; Economics; Industry Clusters; Economy; Growth and Development; United States
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    • 02 May 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth

    Keywords: by Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom & William Kerr
    • September 2003 (Revised November 2005)
    • Case

    Best Buy Co., Inc. (A): An Innovator's Journey

    By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey
    The CEO of Best Buy, a hugely successful retailing company, has hired consulting firm Strategos to imbue the company with an improved innovative capability. The six-month program of experimental learning yields new business ideas and also trains Best Buy employees as... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Management Teams; Creativity; Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Learning; Training; Programs; Retail Industry; United States
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      Stefan H. Thomke

      Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games
      • 23 Aug 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Capturing Benefits from Tomorrow’s Technology in Today’s Products: The Effect of Absorptive Capacity

      Keywords: by Daniel Snow; Technology
      • 2019
      • Chapter

      Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)

      By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
      Return on invested capital (ROIC) is a financial measure of the profitability of a firm or business unit. If it is greater than the business's cost of capital, then reinvestment of earnings increases shareholder VALUE. The ROIC also determines a maximum self-sustaining... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Efficiency; Dupont Analysis; Financial Metrics; Schumpeterian Competition; Sustainable Growth; Competitive Advantage; Financial Strategy; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Value Creation
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      • 11 Apr 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

      • 11 Aug 2014
      • News

      Politics and Dirty Data

      • 28 Jul 2010
      • News

      Entrepreneurs run with crowdsourcing model

      • October 2005 (Revised December 2006)
      • Case

      Magazine Luiza: Building a Retail Model of "Courting the Poor"

      By: Frances X. Frei and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
      Describes the innovative retail model of the Brazilian firm Magazine Luiza. Magazine Luiza enables low-income consumer credit by applying a flexible and nuanced evaluation system. Additionally, its dedication to customer service, employee motivation, and progressive... View Details
      Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Information Technology; Income; Innovation and Management; Success; Customer Focus and Relationships; Credit; Retail Industry; Brazil
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      • Research Summary

      The Strategic Management of Technology

      Clayton M. Christensen's research on the management of technological innovation suggests that for leading firms in a wide variety of industries, developing advanced technologies per se is rarely the constraining challenge in technological innovation. Rather, the... View Details
      • 01 Nov 2012
      • HBS Seminar

      Bill Kerr, Harvard Business School

      • 2011
      • Book

      Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell
      Accelerating energy innovation could be an important part of an effective response to the threat of climate change. Written by a stellar group of experts in the field, this book complements existing research on the subject with an exploration of the role that public... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Sources; Innovation and Invention; Climate Change; Policy; Competition; Demand and Consumers; Finance; Energy Industry
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      • 09 Mar 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      A Family Business at a Crossroads: Scaling and Succession

      Keywords: Re: Christina R. Wing; Real Estate
      • 10 Apr 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Trade Secrets Protection and Antitakeover Provisions

      Keywords: by Aiyesha Dey and Joshua White
      • 25 Jun 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

      either way, labor market competition among firms would close these gaps over time for mobile workers. Immigrants account for large percentage of patents Outside immigrant business owners, Kerr’s previous research shows that immigrants... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service